Body-worn camera footage shows several angles of the tense moments when Miami-Dade County police officers rescued a man who was threatening to drop from a highway overpass.It happened Saturday along Bird Road, right over the busy Palmetto Expressway.A missing person call led Miami-Dade officers to find a 19-year-old man dangling from an overpass, with traffic buzzing by below.Officers say this...
H. Wayne Clark is a Republican candidate running to become Broward’s top cop, except he isn’t a cop. The attorney held a news conference Monday, saying the Broward Sheriff’s Office needs improvement and he is the guy to do it.What’s interesting is that three former Democratic candidates have crossed party lines and are now endorsing Clark is his November race for sheriff against incumbent...
A disturbing story of animal abuse unraveling in Broward County after a dog was found in such poor condition that it had to be put down.That dog’s owner is now under arrest.An alert utility worker spotted the dog, saw the shocking scene and notified police.His name was Champion. A pit pull that...
Look closely and you see his albums and his flag among the rubble of his family mementos.“I thought I had two days to get stuff out,” Mike Hamilton says. “I had five minutes. I begged for an extra five minutes to put on shoes. I got one bag, my birth certificate.”Hamilton, 70, is safe in a hotel...
Miami-Dade County commissioners voted Monday to move forward with establishing an independent civilian panel for police accountability.“The community has been asking for this,” said Commissioner Barbara Jordan, who spearheaded the move.The approval comes in the wake of nationwide outcry and...
Ken Lawson, pushed aside in April from heading the state’s unemployment system after it was overwhelmed by coronavirus-caused job losses, announced his resignation Monday as executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
Lawson, who also ran agencies during former Gov....